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Today in this day by day updates on web development we’re with CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheet) that’ll consents to progress the look and feel of new web era with awesome features like gradients, special text effects, rounded corners, beautiful animations, drop shadows and relative opacity settings to get special browser friendly results.

CSS3 and HTML5 going to alternate of Adobe Flash with some superlative features that also support cross browser usability and help improving the web development, hope you’ll get different and unique experience from listed CSS3 Tutorials roundup, we’ll get in touch.

The Circlicious poster art makes use of plenty of circular geometric shapes and features lots of transparency to add multiple levels to the design, giving the design that bright and crisp feel of typical vector artworks. Being a design that makes use of CSS3 properties, it’s only suited to the modern browsers of Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

We already know that CSS3 has the ability to create a lot of new possibilities to design and implement better web forms. Also, HTML5 has its important role when it comes about creating more usable forms, without actually needing any Javascript code.

Knowing that, check out the below preview to see the login form we’re going to create in this article:

In this short tutorial, we will be using the power of CSS3 effects and transitions, to build a JavaScript-free animated navigation menu which you can use to add a polished look to your website or template. We will be using some neat features such as the :target pseudo selector and :after elements.

Glass Text Effect (refractive index) with CSS3

ZEPPELIN is an experiment trying to create a glass text effect (refractive index) with CSS3. Yes, another useless CSS3 demo. But I always try to keep the markup as minimal as possible.. this time there is only one extra <p> tag needed. I tried to use the :after pseudo-element, but somehow the animation didn’t work.

The refractive index effect is achieved by using two background images on top of each other. The underlying one get’s scaled down a bit and the top one get’s cutout by the text using -webkit-background-clip: text. For the embossing effect a -webkit-text-stroke with a low opacity is used. Something to keep in mind, animating clippings, text-shadows, transparency can make your CPU spike, it’s not just Flash, CSS can be misused too. So make sure you don’t loop the animation forever.

I used 100 text-shadows to make the graphic below happen. Sure, it’s excessive, ridiculous and just plain silly. But why, at times, can’t the web be all of those things? I’m all for sensible, well-reasoned CSS, but let’s keep things in perspective. We’re not surgeons. We can experiment without causing anyone bodily injury. So go! Have a blast! Pull up your localhost and build something wonderfully useless!

In this tutorial, we will be building a jQuery and PHP powered photobooth. It will allow your website visitors to take a snapshot with their web camera and upload it from a neat CSS3 interface.

As you might know, it is not possible to access web cameras and other peripheral devices directly from JavaScript (and it won’t be for some time). However there is a solution to our problem – we can use a flash movie. Flash has perfect web camera support, and is installed on nearly all internet – enabled computers.

The solution we are going to use for this app is webcam.js. It is a JavaScript wrapper around flash’s API that gives us control over the user’s webcam.

When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn’t render the CSS style perfectly. However, if the image is applied as background-image, you can add any style to it and have it rendered properly. Darcy Clarke and I put a quick tutorial together on how to use jQuery to make perfect rounded corner images dynamically. Today I’m going to revisit the topic and show you how much more you can do with the background-image CSS trick. I will show you how to use box-shadow, border-radius and transition to create various image styles.

Follow this step by step process to create your own stylish contact form completely out of HTML5 and CSS3. We’ll be using a couple of the handy new features in HTML5 to add cool functionality to our form, while making use of cool CSS3 properties to recreate our Photoshop concept purely in code.

The design we’ll be building features all the things that make a rich interface; gradients, highlights and shadows! We’ll create a visual concept in Photoshop first of all, but when it comes to building the form we’ll recreate every effect with HTML5 and CSS3.

Imagine a cop drama taking place in the 1930s. After a streak of bank heists, a young detective is given the case of his life. He accepts the challenge, and after grueling months of hard work and life-threatening situations, he manages to bring the bad guys to justice.

What follows is a classical device used by film makers of the period – newspapers flashing and spinning towards the camera, praising the heroic feats of our protagonist. So lets have some fun and build this classical scene using the CSS3 animations capabilities of the new versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari, picking useful techniques along the way.

In this tutorial, we will be creating a simple about page that is powered by PHP, HTML5 and CSS3. It will present your contact information to your visitors, with an option for downloading it as a vCard (useful for importing it in third party applications).

You can use today’s example as a placeholder for your upcoming personal website, or as an actual about page.

Today we are going to create some CSS3 Buttons which are available in multi color and size. There are lots of tutorials on creating css3 buttons over internet, But we have created our own css3 buttons for our various wordpress themes which we sold on wordpress marketplaces, so we thought why not to share that buttons with you guyz. So lets follow the steps for creating css3 buttons.

First of all we need to have a simple HTML mark up for our button, here we need to define the class for our link.. like the main class as button then the size class as small, medium or large and then the color class as red, blue, green etc etc.

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect nevertheless! Let’s take a look at how a similar style can be created for sprucing up your web designs, while taking into consideration semantics and avoiding the repetition of any markup.

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive and beautiful typographical design through pure CSS3. There are no images or other external resources, just pure CSS magic. We’ll also touch on some general typographical concepts along the way.

Transform is a pretty exciting feature that’s been implemented in CSS 3. So why haven’t we used more of it in our designs? When I made the switch to web design, the thing I missed most was the ability to angle text. Sure it could be done with images, but at a price called page weight. I’ve searched online and there are a few examples that use the feature to make cubes, or rotate an image in an attempt to recreate some type of flash-like image gallery, but I haven’t seen it used in a visually impacting way. I asked myself why?

The best way to learn is by doing. So in my attempt to learn why, this is what I created. It was about an hours time and I think it’s pretty stunning visually for the web. This works in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and maybe IE9(not tested). If it doesn’t work, you’re not on the current browser version. Sorry IE6, IE7 and IE8, you’re out of luck.

There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification. Realistically, you won’t be able to use these on your everyday client projects for another few years, but for design blogs and websites aimed at the Web design community, these features can help you push the boundaries of modern Web design today, adding that extra spice to your design and helping the industry move forward.

Here are five techniques snatched from the future that you can put into practice in your website designs today.

With no clear purpose or plan, I’ve resolved to experiment with CSS3 on a regular basis. Some of these note-posts may be more useful and practical than others, but the only way to know for sure is to learn by doing. That being said, here is another experiment with background-clip: text and @font-face via Typekit. When I finished Volume 2 in my Quoting Lebowski series the first thing that came to mind was that I bet I could CSS this. Here is the webkit happy code for this live example, sparing you all the structural bits from style.css:

Follow this step by step walkthrough of the making of a sleek website design for an eyewear brand in HTML5 and CSS3. We’ll build the HTML structure with the latest elements then style up the appearance of the site with CSS3 affects to match the original Photoshop concept with minimal use of background images.

Providing an intuitive, yet eye-catching navigation on your site, is one of the ingredients for a great design. And with the performance improvements in newer browsers and the rise of JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, it is becoming easier to include beautiful animations in your page designs.

Today we are making a CSS3 & jQuery halftone-style navigation menu, which will allow you to display animated halftone-style shapes in accordance with the navigation links, and will provide a simple editor for creating additional shapes as well.

Everyone who has been using CSS is immediately familiar with selectors as they are what is used to target elements on a page and style them. CSS3 brings even more options as far as selecting elements goes. It will allow designers and developers to implement designs much easier and quicker than before.

Here is a run-down of just some of the things that is possible with CSS3 selectors. Of course CSS3 isn’t supported at all by any IE browsers including IE8 but all latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Opera support most, if not all of them.

If you follow CSS, you’re probably sick of hearing promises of CSS 3 — the next generation style sheet language that should have been here several years ago. Well, the specification document still isn’t finalized. If you’re impatient, you’re not alone. Browser manufacturers have already started rolling out support for many of the new features even if they aren’t yet set in stone.

Opera and Safari have been leading the way when it comes to CSS 3 features, but Firefox 3 packs in a few and 3.1 promises to bring Firefox alongside the others. Yeah, we know what you’re thinking: “I can’t do it. I have to support Internet Explorer.”

Well, you’re right. Users of Internet Explorer are out of luck. Although, there’s no reason you can’t use some rounded corner properties solely for your Firefox/Opera/Safari visitors. IE will still render the backgrounds as usual, it just won’t understand the rounded corner bit.

How to Create a CSS3 Tabbed Navigation

Hiya folks! Today we’re going to have fun creating a CSS3 Tabbed Navigation. In this tut we’re going to be creating the darkwash jean version out of the many different themes available for these awesome tabs just because… #1 we can and #2, there is more styling involved and I can show you more neat tricks with CSS3 than with the other styles. If you prefer, there are much simpler themes in the source files so feel free to follow along with those as the structure is pretty much the same.

Note: Support for IE7 & 8 is there but limited in that the functionality works perfectly but some of the overlay styles aren’t treated properly. If not for the wonderful and awesome CSSPIE and Dean Edwards fix, there would be no support for any version other than IE9.

All you disco-dancing designers out there (no more anticipation of alliteration) have been loving the new features CSS3 provides for making websites look cool in an easier, less hackish, and more straightforward fashion. Features like CSS3 gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, animations, and opacity are giving us the promise of less time spent in Photoshop, fewer horribly nested <div>s, more flexibility, and more fun! Not to mention more time down at the pub, excitedly showing your friends your latest cool experiments on your iPad, while sipping on a smooth glass of ale with an intense air of self-satisfaction and smugness. Face it, most of us have enjoyed such a moment!

The new breed of CSS3 shizzle even allows a self-confessed design amateur like myself to produce some fairly tasty looking designs. CSS3 is here, CSS3 is fun, and CSS3 allows us to evolve the look of the web as we go. At least, that’s the theory. But the reality is a bit different:

On both desktop and mobile (and other alternative browsing devices) there are rendering engines out there other than Webkit. (Many designers out there forget this, and don’t consider the fact that it isn’t that hard to make the new CSS3 features work in other browsers, too.)

Some browsers in use today support a reasonable set of features, while some support none at all.

Some of us have real live clients who want their websites to look pretty much identical, even across older browsers.

Still hyped by the possibilities of CSS3, I want to share some CSS3 button experiments with you. The idea is to create some animated link elements with different styles, hover effects and active states.

There are so many great things we can do with the additional properties and possibilities that CSS3 brings along. Today I want to show you how to experiment with text shadows and with transitions in order to achieve a blur effect that we’ll apply to a menu on hovering over the elements. The main idea is to blur the other items while enhancing the one we are currently hovering.

Apple is known for very clean design and if you have been to their website in the last few years you’ve seen their primary navigation. It’s a staple of the apple website and today I wanted to take a crack at recreating the Apple navigation using CSS3 techniques.

It is said that 70 to 80 percentage of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. A major portion of this time is exhausted on downloading all the external components in a web page including, stylesheet, images, scripts, flash etc. An extra HTTP request adds 200+ milliseconds to a page (worldwide average). Since most of today’s browsers limit about 3 or 4 parallel requests at a time, a page with so many external references can cause the requests to get queued up. This may eventually cause the page loading time to increase. In short, the fewer files the web browser has to fetch that much faster the site loads. It’s as simple as that.

The power of CSS3 is enormous and in this tutorial we will see how to exploit it in a very creative way. We are going to create some thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions. On hover over a thumbnail, we will reveal some description of the thumbnail, using a different style in each example.

Today we want to share one of our CSS 3D Transforms experiments with you. The idea is to show an image’s fullscreen version by rotating two blocks in three-dimensional space. The faces of the blocks being rotated to the front will show the fullscreen image.

Last December I wrote a blog post titled Create Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript where I explained how easy it was to create a spinning rays animation with a bit of CSS and JavaScript. The post became quite popular so I thought I’d take some time to look at it and improve it. It occurred to me that one solution I didn’t present was a much lighter solution; a solution that required only CSS!

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